Introduction: Egg Nest Coconut Cake

By The Partiologist
About: I love to create beautiful and fun edible treats! And throwing the perfect party is always in my list of favorites!


Egg Nest Coconut Cake

If you look closely, there are jelly beans in the nest...the chocolate lace nest. See...
I bet you didn't know that Jelly Birds layed such large lace eggs did you? For Real.
Here's How~
I made a giant Chocolate Bird Nest
Lined a metal bowl with saran wrap~
Made a nest, just like a bird. Only bigger.
 
I've always wanted a BIG nest egg!
This one was lace and filled with Jell Beans.
Here's How~
1. Blow up a balloon and shape like an egg. Draw a line around the middle with an edible marker.
2. Place in bowl - just so happened, I had an egg shaped bowl to use. Pipe melted candy melts in a loop pattern. Only go half way down - to your line. Place in frig to harden.
3. Use another balloon, this time for the bottom of the egg. Draw another line around the middle and a circle in the center. Completely fill in the circle to support for the jelly beans.
4. Pipe more loops around the balloon, filling in the center top.
5. After the loops are hard, carefully cut the end of the balloon and slowly let the air out. You'll hear a crackling noise as it releases from the balloon. And two half's make a whole...egg.
6. Place the bottom of the egg in your chocolate nest.
7. Fill with Jelly Beans!
Time now to make the cake~
No, the cake was not Jelly Belly flavored, but colored egg layered.
Coconut Cake Recipe
1. Added food color before I baked each cake layer~Yea, you probably figured that part out.
2. Froze them until I was ready to frost.
3. Then I stacked them all, putting a yummy coconut filling between each layer.
4. Four layers, makes a very TALL cake!
5. Frosted the outside.
6. Pressed coconut around the sides and on top.
7. Used some little rods to help support the NEST!

After adding the top piece of the lace egg, off it went to Jelly Belly Alley!
 
Remember, you don't need Jelly Belly Alley to make this cake. I won't tell.
Now for the best part...we got to eat it!
The first cut is the deepest...
This is my breakfast the next morning...
Yes, cake is the new pancake!
 
Never Leave the Nest!
The Partiologist